Reliability Engineer

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Position Overview
We are seeking a Reliability Engineer to support reliability, maintenance, and asset management activities within a regulated pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing environment. The Reliability Engineer will work cross-functionally with Facilities, Engineering, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Quality, and other stakeholders to improve equipment reliability, optimize preventive maintenance strategies, reduce unplanned downtime, and support operational readiness.
The ideal candidate will have experience working with mechanical, electrical, process, or facility systems in GMP environments and a strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, maintenance best practices, and data-driven continuous improvement.
This position is internally classified as a Facilities Engineer and will have a primary focus on reliability engineering.
WORK LOCATIONTravel to client sites may be required up to 100%, depending on project demands and client expectations.

Key Responsibilities
(This list is not exhaustive and may be modified as needed.)

• Support reliability engineering activities for facility, utility, process, and manufacturing equipment in GMP and non-GMP environments.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve preventive maintenance (PM) programs and asset maintenance strategies.
• Perform equipment and system criticality assessments to prioritize maintenance and reliability activities.
• Lead or support Root Cause Analysis (RCA), failure investigations, and failure mode assessments for equipment and system issues.
• Analyze equipment performance, maintenance history, downtime, and failure data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Develop, maintain, and report reliability metrics and KPIs to measure equipment performance and identify potential failures or performance gaps.
• Support spare parts assessments, critical spare identification, inventory strategies, and risk mitigation planning.
• Recommend equipment life-extension strategies and reliability improvements for mechanical and electrical systems.
• Utilize Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to review equipment history, work orders, preventive maintenance activities, and asset data.
• Support operational readiness activities for new or modified equipment, systems, and facilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment availability, maintainability, and overall asset performance.
• Apply Good Engineering Practices (GEP), reliability best practices, and maintenance best practices to engineering activities.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Facilities, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Quality, Validation, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Develop reports, presentations, and recommendations to communicate reliability performance and improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or another related Engineering discipline.

• Minimum of 1 year of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience with in oral solid dose, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, R&D, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience in Reliability Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Process Engineering, Plant Engineering,…